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STORRS – Ryan Boatright is coming to the end of his career at UConn, but that doesn’t mean he is not still learning, still progressing. As Kevin Ollie’s chat with reporters came to an end on Saturday, he made a point of praising Boatright’s leadership in the come-from-behind win at East Carolina this week. “I think Ryan, from a maturity standpoint, probably played his best game at ECU,” Ollie said, “where he just was calm and he made everybody believe we were going to win that game, no matter if we got down 20 or 10, he just stayed calm. Every time-out, or half-time out, he really was the second coach on the floor, which was great. I thought he did...

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STORRS – Ryan Boatright is coming to the end of his career at UConn, but that doesn’t mean he is not still learning, still progressing.As Kevin Ollie’s chat with reporters came to an end on Saturday, he made a point of praising Boatright’s leadership in...

MEMPHIS – It has become a familiar scene. The Huskies file into their hotel and Sam Cassell Jr. is on crutches.
Cassell has been out since Jan. 25 with a stress fracture in his right leg, the tibia, but the injury was affecting him long before that.
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TAMPA, Fla. – The Huskies wrapped up a second day of practice in Tampa, on Monday they were at the beautiful, newly renovated facilities at the University of Tampa’s downtown campus.
Ryan Boatright practiced, with few if any limitations, so it appears...

NEW YORK – A few notes, quotes, thoughts from American Athletic Conference media day …
The Huskies were the main event, just like one would have anticipated. The defending champs were picked No. 1 in the American Conference coaches’ poll, they...

NEW YORK — The American Athletic Conference didn't get much respect last spring from the committee that seeds teams in the NCAA Tournament.
UConn, the eventual national champion, was a No. 7 seed. Louisville, projected to be a No. 1 or No. 2 seed, was...

STORRS — Sam Cassell Jr. checked in 4:46 into the first half. He had waited a long time, more than two years, to suit up for a major college basketball team, and he was ready.UConn had fallen behind 9-4 in its exhibition game against Southern, but Cassell...

HARTFORD — On a Sunday afternoon when we began to see the many possibilities of Daniel Hamilton, we saw the specific pop of Sam Cassell Jr. for a second time.
Hamilton, the freshman, can fill a stat sheet. Junior, the sophomore, can fill the bucket.
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STORRS — At the end of the day, it was Shabazz Napier's bus.You never knew the route: 0-for-7 one half, 10-for-11 the next. There would be head fakes and fouls until the free throws added up. The miraculous shot, the defiance. It was the ride of a...

STORRS — When Kevin Ollie grabs the microphone at Gampel Pavilion, you never know what's going to come out.
The last time, on March 5, he guaranteed the Huskies would return and hang up a banner. On Friday night, at First Night, the 2014 championship...

CROMWELL – Kevin Ollie was exuberant when he walked into the ballroom at 7:40 a.m. on Wednesday, and he seemed to pick up energy and enthusiasm as the morning went. In his annual address to the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce, Ollie used the...

"Flip" flopped.
The Clippers were set to sign veteran guard Ronald "Flip" Murray for a prorated cost of the veteran's minimum of $1.2 million after buying out Sam Cassell, but Murray had a late change of heart.
He...

OFFICIALLY, THE gathering in a vacant lot behind Johns Hopkins Hospital yesterday afternoon was the kickoff of a state-run anti-violence project.
Unofficially, it was a 'Melo welcome-home block party.
The fact that it functioned as both is precisely...